Terrible disaster in Japan. To show the world how merciful Flying Spaghetti Monster could be, I have started a fundrasing effort for International Medical Corps through it's UK partner (because I am living in the UK and using a web service based here).

Is that blatant enough? We on the kiva Team Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster want you to lend money to people working to build mini businesses in third world countries. Kiva is an outstanding micro lending site. I lend $25, which is bundled with others' $25. The far off person uses it and returns it, and I can lend it again. It's fun. It builds a better world.

The MILLION thing - - we want to have $1M lent in the name of His Noodliness by March 20th. We're getting close, but need an extra boost over the top.

And we won't stop there. We're going to go on to be the highest lending Religious Congregation team in all of kiva.

Hey all. I've been ill and now that I'm better I need to build up clientele again.

Anyone who would like to friend me and like my page on facebook would be most welcome. Anything you find interesting, share with your friends. Maybe some business will come my way. Make sure to put FSM in the friend request.

Haven't been doing well for the past several years, and though I thought I had found the cure to my health issues, relapses have managed to keep me from being able to work consistent hours (I had a part time job as a caregiver, but I can't even do that at the moment) and left me pretty much to one regular design client and a few odd jobs while retaining debt from my divorce and my credit card.

I'm not asking for money, precisely, but if you happen to have more than you can use, it would really be helpful to me right now. I'd declare bancrupcy, but in the US your student loans are the one thing that doesn't go away when you can't afford to pay for stuff and they know it, and declaring bankruptcy is just about the worst thing you can do to your credit report.

Anyway, if you want something designed for print and could afford to pay someone for it, I'd appreciate the opportunity to do it for you. RAmen.

For those of you British Pastafarians, who are somewhere near Oxford...

Oxford Skeptics in the Pub* (of which yours truly is a member) is hosting a talk on Wednesday, March 19 2014 about about whether Creationism/Intelligent Design might contribute to the teaching of biology at year 7-12 level (our speaker is pro-evolution btw, but should make for an interesting talk).

*Skeptics in the Pub is a network of groups (now worldwide) where those interested in science, skepticism, rationalism, critical thinking can socialise and discuss matters of interest.